φρέαρ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φρεῖᾰρ (phreîar) — Epic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰrḗwər, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₁wr̥ (“well, source”) (whence Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “restless movement of water”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fountain, source”), Proto-Germanic *brunnô), from *bʰrewh₁-, which is cognate with Latin ferveō, English burn, brew. The original vowel sequence *ηᾰ (*ēa) was changed to εᾱ (eā) by quantitative metathesis.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰré.aːr/ → /ˈɸre.ar/ → /ˈfre.ar/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰré.aːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰre.ar/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸre.ar/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfre.ar/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfre.ar/

Noun

φρέᾱρ • (phréār) n (genitive φρέᾱτος); third declension

1. artificial well
2. tank, cistern, reservoir

   Synonym: λάκκος (lákkos)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φρέᾱρ; τοῦ φρέᾱτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φρέᾱρ tò phréār	τὼ φρέᾱτε tṑ phréāte	τᾰ̀ φρέᾱτᾰ tà phréāta
Genitive	τοῦ φρέᾱτος toû phréātos	τοῖν φρεᾱ́τοιν toîn phreā́toin	τῶν φρεᾱ́των tôn phreā́tōn
Dative	τῷ φρέᾱτῐ tôi phréāti	τοῖν φρεᾱ́τοιν toîn phreā́toin	τοῖς φρέᾱσῐ / φρέᾱσῐν toîs phréāsi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φρέᾱρ tò phréār	τὼ φρέᾱτε tṑ phréāte	τᾰ̀ φρέᾱτᾰ tà phréāta
Vocative	φρέᾱρ phréār	φρέᾱτε phréāte	φρέᾱτᾰ phréāta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φρεᾰ́ντλης (Phreántlēs)
• φρεᾱτῐ́ᾱ (phreātíā)
• φρεᾱ́τῐον (phreā́tion)
• φρεᾱ́τῐος (phreā́tios)
• φρεᾱτῐσμός (phreātismós)
• φρεᾱτορῠ́κτης (phreātorúktēs)
• φρεᾱτοτῠ́πᾰνον (phreātotúpanon)
• φρεᾱτώδης (phreātṓdēs)

 

Related terms

• φύρω (phúrō, “to mix, mingle”)^{(el), (fr), (it)}

Descendants

• → Translingual: Felicia phrear, Limopsis phrear
• → Dutch: phreatisch
• → English: phreatic, phreaticole, phreaticolous, phreatobiology, phreatomagmatic, phreatomagmatism, phreatophyte, phreatophytic, phreatoplinian
• → French: phréaticole, phréatique, phréatobie, phréatobiologie, phréatomagmatique, phréatomagmatisme, phréatophile, phréatophyte, phréatoplinien
• → German: phreatisch
• Greek: φρέαρ (fréar)
• → Latin: phreāticola, phreāticus

Further reading

• “φρέαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φρέαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φρέαρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5421 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • well idem, page 973.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”).

Noun

φρέαρ • (fréar) n (plural φρέατα)

1. well (water source)

   Synonym: πηγάδι (pigádi)

2. shaft (of lift or elevator)
3. manhole
4. deep, trench (on sea bed)

   Φρέαρ της Καλυψώς ― Fréar tis Kalypsós ― Calypso Deep

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	φρέαρ (fréar)	φρέατα (fréata)
genitive	φρέατος (fréatos)	φρεάτων (freáton)
accusative	φρέαρ (fréar)	φρέατα (fréata)
vocative	φρέαρ (fréar)	φρέατα (fréata)

Derived terms

• αρτεσιανό φρέαρ n (artesianó fréar, “artesian well”)

Further reading

• Αρτεσιανό νερό on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el